Families With Epileptic Kids Upset Marijuana Treatment Seized
CBSA says its agents were simply enforcing the law, as marijuana remains illegal in Canada.
Parents of children suffering from epilepsy say a recent move by Canadian border agents to seize shipments of medical marijuana oil from an American company could have a catastrophic effect on their children’s health.
The families have sent letters to the federal government pleading for the border to allow shipments of Charlotte’s Web, a type of marijuana oil that has been touted by some researchers as an effective therapy for hard-to-treat forms of epilepsy.
Charlotte’s Web – named after a five-year-old Colorado girl with epilepsy whose condition improved after being treated with marijuana oil – has very low levels of the psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol, but is high in cannabidiol, or CBD.
Some scientists think CBD quiets the excessive electrical and chemical activity in the brain that causes seizures, although they say more research in needed....
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